Summary of the 2nd "Put on the new man" sermon, Aug. 29, 2010
The Aug. 29, 2010 sermon was delivered by Student Minister Nuri Mohammad, who said that Louis Farrakhan telephoned him at 2:15 P.M. on Aug. 27 to ask him to give the second "Put on the new man" sermon on Farrakhan's behalf, with content that was dictated over the phone. (The first "Put on the new man" sermon was delivered by Louis Farrakhan on Aug. 22.) The sermon lasted about 75 minutes and a brief summary follows below. At present, the Aug. 29 sermon can be viewed by registered users in the archive at
NOI.org: The Official Website for The Nation of Islam.
Nuri Mohammad emphasized that the words and writings of Louis Farrakhan are to be considered equal in value to the surahs of the Qur'an and the verses of the Bible. "And he's a divine guide, meaning that he knows what he needs to give us mentally to make us what we are to become."
Nuri Mohammad pointed out that the King James version of the Bible is unreliable because King James was a slave master, a homosexual, had intercourse with his own mother, and was responsible for slavery. The Bible must be reinterpreted because it has been tampered with.
The slogan "Put on the new man" comes from two Bible verses:
Ephesians 4:24 "Put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness."
Colossians 3:10 "Put on the new man which is renewed in knowledge after the image of Him that created him."
On Aug. 27 at 2:51 P.M.: "The Honorable Louis Farrakhan said, 'What then is the Good News or the Gospel?' He said, 'The Good News, or the Gospel, is we no longer have to walk around with a self-destructive mind. We can exchange it for a new mind.' 'Exchange' means 'to trade it in'. Is that right? Get rid of one and get something new in the place of that one. But Jesus is coming to offer a new mind free from aberration, first to a specific people, then to the entire world of Man."
Having a new mind will enable people "to become the vessels, the vehicle, the tools in the hand of God by which He can put His mind, or His energy, or His spirit, or His power in us that He can use this body, this brain to move matter, energy, space, and time to make a whole new universe."
The mind has been altered from its original state: "Some way, somebody has readjusted the natural frequency that God established the mind on from the beginning and adjusted the frequency by means that it can be controlled by a source outside of God, and now being manipulated by Satan himself."
The problem began after creation when Adam rebelled: "Once he rebelled, then he began to short-circuit the power of this native mind, this original mind, or what the Scripture calls the spiritual mind, that God had given this man."
As a result the spiritual mind (whose fruits are love, joy, peace, long-suffering goodness, faith, meekness, gentleness, and temperance) was put to sleep and the carnal mind (whose fruits are envy, strife, and division) took over: "We are under the number 6. And we've been taught and educated, raised and reared in a world that's not ruled by human beings, but is ruled by beasts in human form."
Numerology is apparently a core belief of the Nation of Islam, as Nuri Mohammad gave many examples to prove that the number 6 continually appears in the modern world: "If you want to know what's going on, you turn on the 6 o'clock news. You turn to ABC. A is the first letter, B is the second, C is the third: 1 + 2 + 3 = 6. Or you turn to CBS. C is the third letter, B is the second letter, S is the 19th letter: add it up, it becomes 24, 2 + 4 is what? Or if you're crazy enough to turn on this crazy no good racist station, FOX! F is the sixth letter, R is the fifteenth letter: 1 + 5 is 6! X is the twenty-forth letter and 2 + 4 is what? So in FOX is 6, 6, 6."
Even the Pope is represented by 6 and "the real Pope is the Honorable Louis Farrakhan" who will "get us into the mind of Christ."
To illustrate what an ideal society would look like, Nuri Mohammad describes the selfless behavior of an ant in an ant colony. The ant shares everything and it can lift enormous weights "because its mind does not register impossibility". Cultivating righteousness will bring about the new mind, which is the mind of God, and "whenever we all have the mind of God, we're going to make the ant look like nothing."
After the sermon, Nuri Mohammad invited members of the audience to come forward and let him welcome them to the study program, "this beautiful process of becoming that original woman and original man that we once were before we had this carnal mind fed and lost our natural mind."
